A History of Indian Literature v2.c27.100

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P. 354 note 1, add: See also Hakuju *Ui*, Maitreya as an Historical Personage, in Lanman Studies, p. 95ff. Here he says (p. 99) that it ''is still a question'' whether the authorship of the commentary on the Mahāyāna-Sūtrālaṃkāra belongs to Asaṅga or to Vasubandhu. He ascribes to Maitreya the works: Yogācārabhūmi, Yoga-vibhaṅga-śāstra (now lost), Mahāyāna-Sūtrālaṃkāra, Madhyāntavibhaṅga, Vajracchedikā-Pāramitā-śāstra, and Abhisamayālaṃkāra. G. *Tucci*, On some Aspects of the Doctrines of Maitreya(nātha) and Asaṅga, Calcutta 1930, and in JASB, N.S., XXVI, 1930, p. 125ff., supports, by new evidence, the view that Maitreya or Maitreyanātha is an historical personage and the author of six works, including the Mahāyāna-Sūtrālaṃkāra, and the Yogacaryā-bhūmiśāstra (this is the correct title). He is of opinion that Maitreya is the author of the Kārikās of all the six works, while Asaṅga, his chief pupil, wrote the commentaries on them. *E. Obermiller*, in the introduction to his translation of the Uttaratantra of Maitreya (The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle of Salvation, being A Manual of Buddhist Monism, The Work of Ārya Maitreya with a Commentary by Āryāsaṅga. Translated from the Tibetan, in Acta Orientalia, Vol. IX, 1931, pp. 81-306), states that the following five works are ascribed to Maitreya by Tibetan tradition, *viz.*, Sūtrālaṃkāra, Madhyānta-vibhaṅga, Dharma-dharmatā-vibhaṅga, Abhisamayālaṃkāra, and Uttaratantra. *Obermiller* gives a summary analysis of all these works. As the commentary on the Abhisamayālaṃkāra is ascribed to Asaṅga, and as both text and commentary must have been composed by the same author, *O.* inclines to the opinion that all the 5 treatises which show a great resemblance with each other as regards style, though they are written from different points of view (1-3 from Yogācāra-Vijñānavāda, 4 and 5 from Mādhyamika point of view), were written by Asaṅga, and that the tradition of Asaṅga having heard them from Maitreya in the Tuṣita heaven is only meant to give a divine sanction to the works.